At 11:03 PM -0500 11/8/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Cards manufactured by Promise, but containing the necessary physical >modifications for Macs, and the necessary firmware for Macs, are marketed by >Sonnet, and others. > >Once it became apparent that some Promise PC cards could easily be modified >to work in Macs, the various vendors, and Promise, got together and >implemented changes which make it next to impossible to "divert" PC-oriented >cards to Macs. > >In fact, the latest-and-greatest chip set from Promise has a version without >a suffix (this one works only in PCs) and a version with a suffix (this one w >orks only in Macs). > >The non-suffixed part has 256 kb of EEPROM, which is sufficient for PC >firmware; the suffixed part has 1024 kb of EEPROM, which is needed by the Mac >firmware. > >None of these cards requires a driver.
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